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- alnilam
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This might be controversial but personally i think slavery is pretty bad... I appreciate Tony for speaking his mind about this
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Mar 26, 2016 23:59
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- joke_explainer
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Is Tony's the only assurance that the chocolate is more ethically produced?
I had the same concern and googled him before I made the thread just to make sure it wasn't all marketing. It looks somewhat legit. The producer has been at this for some time, and was dealing with it before he even started really making his own brand, famously suing himself for knowingly purchase a product of slave labor after he ate several pounds of chocolate in a publicity stunt, trying to raise awareness.
Tony posted:
"Since 2012 we have been buying our cocoa directly from cocoa farmers in West Africa who we know personally. More specifically, we buy our cocoa from two farming co-ops in Africa: ABOCFA in Ghana and Ecookim in Ivory Coast. ABOCFA includes 400 farmers from 13 villages, and Eccokim 350 farmers, most of them from the village of Blaiskero Sud. We have established long-term relationships with these farmers and buy directly from them, which is the first critical step towards 100% slave-free chocolate. It guarantees them fair prices for their beans and financial stability so they can invest in their own futures. That’s good for the farmer, his family and his employees and their families. What’s in it for you? Delicious fully traceable 100% slave-free chocolate."
They use 100% traceable sources to their chocolate, something that is pretty difficult to do, and are 'fair trade certified', though they acknowledge that's not quite enough and are going beyond that. More information can be found on the internet.
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Mar 27, 2016 00:59
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- Android Blues
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it's ironic how the anti-slavery chocolate bar bears a strong visual resemblance to a willy wonka product
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Mar 27, 2016 01:04
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- playground tough
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ravioli ravioli give me the chocolonely
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Mar 27, 2016 01:16
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- blaise rascal
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"Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke of Pearl...."
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I had the same concern and googled him before I made the thread just to make sure it wasn't all marketing. It looks somewhat legit. The producer has been at this for some time, and was dealing with it before he even started really making his own brand, famously suing himself for knowingly purchase a product of slave labor after he ate several pounds of chocolate in a publicity stunt, trying to raise awareness.
They use 100% traceable sources to their chocolate, something that is pretty difficult to do, and are 'fair trade certified', though they acknowledge that's not quite enough and are going beyond that. More information can be found on the internet.
Well, if they're fair trade certified, then they're at least as good as the chocolate I buy from my church
ty vanisher, ty khanstant
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Mar 27, 2016 01:38
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- Piso Mojado
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unfortunately, im a slave to a long family history of heart disease and adult onset diabetes, so I wont be purchasing this product and will probably eat a piece of fruit instead.
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Mar 27, 2016 01:52
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- the unabonger
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I appreciate that chocolate bar and will look for one next time i get a hankering. what other flavors did they have?
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Mar 27, 2016 05:33
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- the unabonger
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dark almond sea salt, dark pecan coconut (really good!)
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Mar 27, 2016 07:05
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- treasure bear
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chocolate is one of the best things
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Mar 27, 2016 12:22
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- Shaquin
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the fact that its reliant on slave labor doesnt help this
i hope you dont own any chinese manufactured electronics either
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Mar 27, 2016 16:22
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- Shaquin
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i just wanted to be pithy. a good bar of dark is cool to keep around though.
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Mar 27, 2016 17:06
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I read the anti-slavery chocolate wrapper and it made me think that slavery was bad but later that day I read a chocolate wrapper that said that slavery was good so unfortunately I now think that slavery is really good
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Mar 27, 2016 18:27
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Hi it's me the guy who gets all his facts from chocolate bar wrappers. Yesterday I read a chocolate bar wrapper that said shoes were bad so I had to walk home barefoot. It was a really sunny day so I burned my feet on the tarmac and later my soles got all cut up when I took a shortcut through a briar thicket. Bar was pretty good, very smooth, nice cocoa/milk ratio
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Mar 27, 2016 18:30
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Yesterday was a hassle, got trapped in a room with multiple instances of the AND, OR, XOR and NOT chocolate bars and was tricked into performing several menial yet increasingly complex tasks
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Mar 27, 2016 18:31
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- treasure bear
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I read the anti-slavery chocolate wrapper and it made me think that slavery was bad but later that day I read a chocolate wrapper that said that slavery was good so unfortunately I now think that slavery is really good
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Mar 27, 2016 18:35
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Mar 27, 2016 18:35
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- treasure bear
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i will never take orders from a kinder bueno
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Mar 27, 2016 18:40
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- Luvcow
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One day nearer spring
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I eat chocolate harvested by white slaves with black masters because it helps to balance the karma
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Mar 27, 2016 19:07
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- Shaquin
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ironic that white chocolate is the moral choice makes you think....
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Mar 27, 2016 19:12
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- treasure bear
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chocolate says to me: "eat me im yummy, but you really should know about the cond-" and then i eat it and it's yummy
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Mar 27, 2016 19:17
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- Hobo Pyro
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unless u found this in a whole foods i give it six months before the company goes bankrupt
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Mar 27, 2016 20:24
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- drilldo squirt
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a beautiful, soft meat sack
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Yesterday was a hassle, got trapped in a room with multiple instances of the AND, OR, XOR and NOT chocolate bars and was tricked into performing several menial yet increasingly complex tasks
Haha, logic circuits.
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Mar 27, 2016 21:05
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- drilldo squirt
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a beautiful, soft meat sack
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You know what, making people feel like they are doing something to help others by buying your stuff has got to one of the evilest ways out their to sell things.
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Mar 27, 2016 21:06
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- Piso Mojado
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I would agree if it wasn't actually helping people. Overall, we can't use capitalism to solve the problems of capitalism, but a good interim step is try to cut out the worst abuses in the system. The guy has been a chocolate activist for far longer than he actually has made chocolate. If you can choose between a company that is using a slave labor and a company that isn't in your purchasing, isn't it less evil to choose the company that isn't using slave labor?
no, because it makes ppl think that they are actually helping slave children when in reality it doesnt on any significant level and anesyhtizes you from actually doing something impactful instead of just eating chocolate.
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Mar 29, 2016 00:33
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unequally divided
Hey folks it's me Tony. Yeah haha the guy from the front of the wrapper, it's hosed up I know but here I am. Just popping in on the back of my chocolate bar wrapper to say: "Hey - isn't it weird that chocolate is so sweet and tasty when there is no more bitter a taste than that of unfair trade practices in the third world?" That's why I've made my chocolate bar as lovely and hosed up as the world we live in today. Just try and break off a square of this piece of poo poo stained glass window rear end bar. I bet you can't but try anyway you stupid mother fucker. -Tony
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Mar 29, 2016 00:46
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- misty mountaintop
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no, because it makes ppl think that they are actually helping slave children when in reality it doesnt on any significant level and anesyhtizes you from actually doing something impactful instead of just eating chocolate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJDgxH8aRGs
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Mar 29, 2016 00:48
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